-There are Italian sonnets
~created by Giacomoda Lentino of Italy in 1230
-There are English Sonnets
~ also called Shakespearean sonnets
Sonnets
~Structured poems of 14 lines
~English sonnets are arranged as 3 quatrains (stanza of 4 lines) followed by a couplet
~Traditional rhyme scheme is:
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
~Written in Iambic Pentameter
1) Iamb = 1 foot
2 syllables
That follow a unstressed, stressed pattern
2) Pent = 5
5 iamb's in a line (So for every line there are 5 stressed syllables and 5 unstressed)
*** First syllable is unstressed
~ "embedded sonnets" in a lot of Shakespeare's plays
~used in a lot of his plays, writing, etc.
